Word: copse
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Adelstein builds his stories with as much surprise and grit as any Al Pacino or Mark Wahlberg movie, blurring the lines between the cops, the crooks and even the journalists. "You and I are in the same business," a gangster tells Adelstein early on. "We're in the information industry...
Taylor's fresh start at East Dillon does more than allow for new stories; it highlights the class and race issues that have always percolated on FNL. Tami gets an earful from rezoned parents upset about their kids' being sent to "that hellhole ... with that element." Taylor sees more black...
Because where there are drug-running, there is corruption and cover-ups. If cops can be paid to look the other way when a shipment belonging to major drug lord passes by or if they are too afraid to rat on drug runners with influence, what's to stop well...
Some previous attempts at community policing went wrong after residents accused officers of the same corrupt practices that are endemic throughout Brazil's police forces. This time around, authorities are hiring rookie cops to avoid the bad habits of veterans and paying them bonuses in the hopes that they won...
"It is a genuine attempt to change the way policing is done, but it will take a generation to make a start, not one or five or 10 years," says Tom Phillips, co-director of Dancing with the Devil, a new film about traffickers and cops in a Rio favela...